On September 16, the Sichuan Airlines will launch a non-stop air link between Chengdu and Finland's Helsinki.

The new service, to fly on the route of the company's current Chengdu-Copenhagen link, will operate on every Monday and Friday. The outbound flights departing from Chengdu, numbered 3U8271, leave at 02:00 and arrive at 06: 00. While the inbound ones departing from Helsinki, numbered 3U8272, leave at 15:45 and arrive at 05:00 next day (All the time mentioned above is local time). The one-way journey is expected to take around 9 hours.